November 30, 2001
New Online Service Lets Biologists Vote on Most Important Articles
More than 1,400 biologists have volunteered for a new online service that rates the quality of scientific papers in the life sciences by essentially allowing a broad group of researchers to vote on which papers they think are most interesting. The service's organizers say it challenges the traditional system of judging the significance of scientific work.
The new service, called Faculty of 1000, is meant to help scientists wade through the growing body of research in biology
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